by Alyse Sands
As a community, we have to stay confident and positive. Today is a new and wonderful day and Nashville is rebuilding quickly. If we believe that the flood was our "Rock Bottom" then there's only one way to go...UP! We've seen that Nashville is not only a great city to live in but that it's also filled with amazing people who have proven that they will rise to the occasion for others in need . People have helped people like we never imagined. Neighbors, friends and strangers dropped everything to clean up devastated homes and rebuild them once again. Who wouldn't want to live in a city like that? And what's more, even though the tax credit is gone, people still must move for many reasons; one of which is for jobs. Nashville was voted one of the top cities in the U.S. for business relocation. I recently found a page I'd saved from the "Tennessean" from 2/27/05. The front page says, "Values skyrocket in some upscale Nashville neighborhoods but trend overall in Midstate is a steady increase that lags the South and nation" (by Keith Russell). At the time, that sounded negative for us. In retrospect, this was good news! Had we experienced the record value increases as other areas did, more of us would have lost homes and there would have been many more bank foreclosures to deal with. So, Nashville, let's be happy! Here's to the future...WE ARE NASHVILLE and that's a beautiful thing to be!
Now that the tax credit and the flood are behind us, Nashvillians must forge ahead! If you think that this means another hit to the Nashville Real Estate market, you're mistaken! NOW is the time we move upward! Don't stop dreaming and working towards your goals because you "heard" that the market is bad. Don't allow the opinions of others, including the media, to influence your plans. When consumers hear negatively slanted news, they have a tendency to react accordingly. Our beliefs and our actions set results in motion.
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